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...strengthened the thin Liberal majority in the House of Commons (now 127 seats against 117 for the combined Opposition). It also seemed to indicate a brightened party future. The Liberals, after three by-election defeats in a row, now had won two straight (in Cartier and in Riche-lieu-Verchères last December). In Ottawa, Liberal masterminds sighed with relief...
Further reforms call for open meetings in the Houses and in the Union, primarily to nominate a slate for Council elections, but serving a double purpose in giving publicity to Council reports and decisions. The proposed constitution also provides for nominating committees in lieu of a 25 percent quorum in the Houses or a ten percent quorum in the Union...
...more bluntly. If the U.S. would not concur, he said, then Britain should dump the matter into the U.S.'s lap and get out of the country. That would effectively answer those who think that Britain is hanging on to Palestine as a military base in lieu of Egypt...
...terms: a 2½?an-hour increase (added to the 16? boost previously offered) in lieu of changes in working rules for one year (see Labor...
Smacko! In Chicago, Walter Mack was fined $2 apiece for the five kisses he gave his landlady in lieu of rent...